Frauental Monastery
The Frauental Monastery was a Cistercian abbey in Frauental near Creglingen . A large part of the buildings was destroyed in the Peasants' War. Today only the south wing of the convent remains, in which there is now a model project for juvenile detention in free forms (the Chance project ), as well as the monastery church in the architectural style of the transition from Romanesque to Gothic .
Former monastery church
The church building was extensively renovated in the 20th century. The actual worship area is located in the "Upper Church" in single-nave, 34 meters long and eight meters wide nave . Three late Gothic figures of saints are exhibited in it. A museum on the history of the formerly independent village of Frauental is now housed on the former nuns' gallery.
In the "lower church" below was the burial place of the Lords of Hohenlohe -Brauneck. In this crypt church with ribbed vaults, some frescoes have been preserved above the altar arch, which were discovered during renovation work in 1962 and show Jesus and the twelve apostles. A curiosity of the church are two corpses from the 18th century, mummified by natural influences.
history
The nunnery was founded in 1232 by Konrad and Gottfried von Hohenlohe-Brauneck, who were based at the nearby Brauneck Castle , and when it was founded, it comprised around 600 hectares of land. The lands were later expanded. After the nobility line died out in 1390, the monastery came into the possession of the Margraves of Brandenburg-Ansbach . In the course of the Peasants' War, the monastery was looted and set on fire several times by farmers in May 1525. Most of the monastery including the high altar of the monastery church was destroyed. In 1548 Frauental was secularized.
Web links
- www.klosterkirche-frauental.de
- Cistercian abbey Frauental in the database of monasteries in Baden-Württemberg of the Baden-Württemberg State Archives
Coordinates: 49 ° 29 ′ 53.5 " N , 10 ° 5 ′ 23.6" E